And why does anyone find this surprising given our government's spending and regulatory binge...?

5:24 pm September 19, 2013

Steve wrote:

Will there -- can there -- ever be a backlash to this preposterous situation? Our national security apparatus - just part of the problem - comes to something like $52 billion a year now, much of that spent on paying thousands of bureaucrats within 50 miles of the White House.

In fact, this whole situation -- the never-ending deficit spending, the lack of serious financial reform, the political parties financially benefiting from gridlock, the erosion of the middle class around the country except for DC -- is beginning to look like a prelude to a social and economic collapse.

5:24 pm September 19, 2013

Sucking on the teat wrote:

Must be nice...

5:28 pm September 19, 2013

lbhthink wrote:

This is what happens when you vote for large government leadership. So much of your tax paying dollars goes to pay for all these federal contractors etc. living off this huge system. Of course, nothing gets done concerning our runaway debt problem, or our high unemployment rate, or our 47 plus million on food stamps. What a joke and the funny thing is the joke is on all of us because we keep electing these losers in office. We deserve what we get and it shows how pathetically stupid the American voter really is.

5:47 pm September 19, 2013

Chris Petruzzi wrote:

"The income of the typical D.C. household rose 23.3% between 2000 and 2012 to an inflation-adjusted $66,583..." The census data is inadequate to make this conclusion. Most likely, the identity of the median household changed along witht he influx of lawyers, contractors and consultants that this article describes. The actual families that were in DC 13 years ago might have had no change in their real income.

6:04 pm September 19, 2013

H. Craig Bradley wrote:

Sorry partisans, but these trends were well underway when George W. Bush was President.

6:14 pm September 19, 2013

The Oracle wrote:

I don't blame our ruling elite for robbing American citizens and taking the wealth of this country for themselves. Americans deserve this abuse because they've become stupid, fat, lazy and a menace to themselves and therefore should be divested of their money so that they cannot do more damage. People get what's coming to them. Americans are getting the punishment they richly deserve because they allow it. I hope their misery intensifies and becomes unbearable so that perhaps they close their mouths, stop drooling on themselves, pay attention to what's happening in the country and correct it. Until then, I ask that our leaders take more and enact more freedom restricting laws on Americans for their sin of electing the class of swine that has power over us.

6:26 pm September 19, 2013

Howard wrote:

Aren't we all just so relieved that America hasn't an hereditary aristocracy except in politics. That's really worked out well for us hasn't it?

6:26 pm September 19, 2013

John wrote:

D.C. always looks like an outlier when you compare it to states because it bears no resemblance to one geographically or demographically. It doesn't matter whether you're looking at income or any other statistic -- D.C. will stick out if it's listed with the 50 states. It would have been much more useful for the article to include a table listing D.C. with other major metropolitan areas in the U.S. You might reach the same conclusions, I don't know. But the comparisons in this article make no sense.

6:28 pm September 19, 2013

The Debacle wrote:

Are the Democrats not known for exorbitant spending? aka "Largesse, Inc."
Why did we vote for them?

6:36 pm September 19, 2013

Finger Pointing Roulette wrote:

Wait...let me guess...it's Bush's fault along with the fact that the sun will burn out someday. Democrats can NEVER be at fault since they emanate pure white light and steal money from conservatives.

6:53 pm September 19, 2013

Florida Bob wrote:

When I fist entered the labor market, late 50's, I had two choices, go to work for the government which had comparatively low ages, but offered good benefits and job security, or go to work in the industrial world, which offered higher wages, good benefits (primarily because of unions) but much less job security.

What caused the change we see today? Has government become overly generous or has industry become progressively more stingy? One thing I know for sure the difference between entry level jobs and CEO's has grown much faster then entry level govenment jobs and what we pay the President.

6:56 pm September 19, 2013

Snake Plisskin wrote:

Never let a good crisis go to waste.

7:16 pm September 19, 2013

otaycec wrote:

The increase in D.C. is just a reflection of Obama's promise to redistribute the wealth. He pretended to be doing it for the middle class, which has suffered the most of under Obama, but the whole scheme has been to localize wealth and power in the hands of fewer and fewer people. In this regard, Obama is a tremendous success.

7:17 pm September 19, 2013

oooooo wrote:

The palaces of kings are built on the ruins of paradise

7:22 pm September 19, 2013

JimFromMN wrote:

The country is splitting into a working class and a ruling class. The ruling class is taking care of themselves. The rest of us get the crumbs.

7:23 pm September 19, 2013

Blame Yourselves! wrote:

Justice for the Ron Paul voters and Obama supporters who voted to destroy their own future!

7:29 pm September 19, 2013

Treebeard wrote:

In 1960 Eisenhower warned of the “Military Industrial Complex.” Today I submit the following “Governing-Business complex” warning for your consideration;

“Throughout America's adventure in free government, our basic purposes have been to … foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity among people and among nations. To strive for less would be unworthy of a free and religious people. Any failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous hurt both at home and abroad.
… In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the government-business complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. … We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge governmental and business machinery with our … methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”

7:32 pm September 19, 2013

rbcintexas wrote:

And they say that crime does not pay. You could not tell that in DC.

7:38 pm September 19, 2013

The Truth wrote:

The District of Columbia is such a small place, what has really occurred is a small trend of richer people not choosing the suburbs as much as living in the district in greater numbers than 10 years ago. Although there may be a party in the larger DC Metro, with many more people living in Maryland and Virginia than "DC":

7:44 pm September 19, 2013

Phoenix gal wrote:

Sounds eerily familiar to a movie I saw last year...Hunger Games anyone? We are becoming the districts ruled by an elite Capitol class.

7:49 pm September 19, 2013

J wrote:

Where the Hell is ROBIN HOOD when we need him ? We need an Army of Robin Hoods !

7:51 pm September 19, 2013

Jaime Yarbrough wrote:

Where the Hell is Robin Hood when we need him ? We need and Army of Robin Hoods !

8:00 pm September 19, 2013

David Lenihan wrote:

It is appropriate that incomes rise in Washington, DC. It is the home of our government and it is true that they are smarter than the average American....in fact doubly smart. So, don't complain about their compensation....they have huge burdens. It is not easy monitoring 300 Million people and telling us all how to think and lead our lives. They are worth every penny and every pension.

8:02 pm September 19, 2013

Peter Marcus wrote:

Hunger Games 2, Obama Bogaloo

8:06 pm September 19, 2013

Tom O'Donnell wrote:

I'd like to know where the heck my other $22K is -- because my salary is stuck at $66,000 for at least three more years. I work in DC and live in Virginia, and I am fed up with hearing how we are all partying and not suffering like the rest of the country. Four years ago I lost my job when my company folded, at least I got a job (at a 23% pay cut) because I know many who did not. I try not to complain but when I see a headline like this, my blood boils.

8:10 pm September 19, 2013

Dah, Big surprise= wrote:

Every one in that area is government employed and they continue to get raises, bonuses, junkets, rich pensions, and exceptions from the expenses of health care reform. Basically they continue to rape the taxpayers for doing nothing but making our lives worse, spying on us, and trying to figure out how to get more of our money and subjugate us further. Obviously, they are doing it quite successfully!

8:32 pm September 19, 2013

FedUpBob wrote:

Pray for an extinction event Washington, D.C. Just a small asteroid should do it.

8:58 pm September 19, 2013

erto wrote:

Rome fiddles, while the nation burns....

9:00 pm September 19, 2013

DUH wrote:

Has no one considered the gentrification taking playing in the city? Poor people are being pushed out as neighborhoods in the city are being flipped.

9:20 pm September 19, 2013

Jim Beard wrote:

There are a new things that should be noted, to put things in perspective.

For most of the history of WDC, the District was governed directly by the Congress. This had some interesting effects, such as an "age of consent" of 14, presumably because some of the governing Congress-critters liked 'em young.

The baneful effects of rule by Congress became so great that the District was granted "home rule, " more or less, in the 1970s. The Demograt party promptly assumed dominance over District government, easily voted in by the many blacks who had migrated the area during WW-II when there was a local labor shortage due to the draft and who had found the environment more to their liking than where they had come from.

Among the illustious politicians voted into office was one "The bitch set me up" Marion Barry, the second elected Mayor of the District. He served three terms as Mayor, served time for cocaine (if memory serves me correctly), and returned to resume his political career as a member of the District Council. .

Put Demograts in command of a District with a sizable number of high income people (when times are bad, the "best and brightest" congregate in ever greater numbers in the District to work on the problems, and when times are good those "best and brightest" get credit and even higher incomes as rewards) and a bunch of relatively recent migrants to the area from the lowest socio-economic classes where they came from, and you get the classic dumbbell effect. Big group of very high income people at one end. Big group of very low income people at the other end. An unusually small "middle class" between them that tended to move to the suburbs in search of better schools, more peaceable environs during hours of darkness (by tradition the District has always had lots of police to keep the place pleasant for the Congress-critters and high Government officials), and other amenities.

There has been some "gentrification" of some areas in the District in recent times, mostly by young aspiring bureaucrats without children, and that has had an effect on condo, apartment, and maybe even detached home prices, but those at the bottom of the ladder have mostly been displaced rather than boosted upward.

All things considered, the surprising thing is that the District is not in worse shape than is the case.

My persona recommendation for rectifying matters would be to move the National Seat of Government to the middle of Kansas, but I am not confident that Kansas could be paid enough to get them to take it. A more practical alternative would be to give back all land in the District in private hands back to Maryland, that had donated it, in part because it was a miserable swamp in large part that Maryland had little use for and in part because making the law-makers assemble iin such a foul environment would encourage them to arrive for a Session of Congress, do what needed to be done, and get the Hotel out the area and back to where they had been elected, where life was more pleasant. How things have changed! Not always for the better.

9:56 pm September 19, 2013

William wrote:

Screw you FedUpBob. Awful comment. Especially after the tradegy this week.

10:21 pm September 19, 2013

Lee Bishop wrote:

The place is full of thieves and liars.

10:25 pm September 19, 2013

King Ranch wrote:

Royalty has it's needs you know.

10:39 pm September 19, 2013

Jay Santos wrote:

Throughout our history geographic areas have seen wealth accumulate based on what they produced; steel, corn, lumber, manufactured goods. What does Washington D.C. produce but misery for the nation?

Ladies and Gentlemen, it is time to give Congress a pay freeze, or a pay cut and send them home.

11:17 pm September 19, 2013

JH wrote:

Being a politician is now a career instead of the temporary service that it was meant to be. People in the private sector would serve a term in congress and return to their previous profession. With all the power and perks that comes with being in congress, those elected didn't want to give up that sweet gig, becoming more invested in their own enrichment and are more than eager to support the machine that ensures it...

11:18 pm September 19, 2013

Mr. How Obvious wrote:

Well duh.

11:35 pm September 19, 2013

KLOüD wrote:

NJ has the highest median income.......who da thunk it.....

11:46 pm September 19, 2013

Not Surprised wrote:

Good friend of mine didn't even finish college makes $115k for a defense contractor per year near DC. I spent $300k on private university and law school, live in New York City and make 60% of what he makes (granted, I blame the partnership structure of law firms which creates little incentive for sound accounting practices to operate a business).

12:02 am September 20, 2013

ChrissMA wrote:

The American Royal Ruling Klass. A Monetary Monarchy. Legislative Thievery.

Washington, DC is a politically gated community of takers, using the dumbed-down public school system to create ever more no-information voters for their own gains while keeping them in perpetual dependency in abject poverty (political slavery) - and then use them use to steal their riches from the makers.

12:07 am September 20, 2013

John wrote:

...and they could care less.

12:42 am September 20, 2013

Clocks ticking wrote:

An the gun sales soar, outside of D.C.

1:01 am September 20, 2013

Bill Clinton wrote:

I tell you first hand that dc is a "din of thieves."

1:06 am September 20, 2013

libertarian forfreedom wrote:

It should be no surprise to anyone that
Socialist Obama and Socialist Washington
is redistributing American's wealth AWAY from 'The People'
and into the Washington establishment coffers.

Obama, WH, Washington, Socialist, liberals, progressives and anyone left of Conservatives are dancing with joy and glee at the destruction of "The People of America'

Fight back next election....
Vote for Libertarian, Tea Party and Conservatives.

1:09 am September 20, 2013

sc341 wrote:

New Jersey has the HIGHEST HOUSEHOLD INCOME I noticed.

2:42 am September 20, 2013

Hawaii Jeff wrote:

Rename Washington DC! Animal Farm

7:48 am September 20, 2013

Longin4Reagan wrote:

Our rulers in DC prosper. Truly despicable that DC luxuriates in the tax dollars confiscated from the rest of America that continues to suffer under the incompetence of Obama.

7:50 am September 20, 2013

Marie wrote:

The federal government is holding a hammer over the head of the public and private industry. It's no accident. Obama's crushing policies of over regulation, the health care law, selecting what he will enforce or not is confusing and expensive. In the meantime, those who profit from the policies are multiplying around DC showing clearly that the situation will only get worse. I am sure that closing all those military bases, cutting military spending, taking money out of the pocket of consumers and cities is having the desired effect. I see no way that the health care bill can help us. The baby boomers who have always been the largest population in the US will need their social security and medicare money. It has been shoveled over to Obama care with huge administrative costs, no rules to avoid fraud and waste. Young people do not have to join and are already covered under their parents plan till age 26. Who will pay for it?

8:09 am September 20, 2013

Sean Proculus wrote:

"Most Corrupt admin in the history of the Country"
It makes me wanna puke!

8:44 am September 20, 2013

Jon weiss wrote:

Is anyone surprised, this is merely government doing what government does, sucking the life out of the country to feed itself.

10:15 am September 20, 2013

jimd wrote:

It is obvious by driving around the DC area and that includes parts of N. Va. and Maryland that is is absolutely BOOMING!! Why is that? Hmmmm. Let's see. Could it be the fact that our gov't lives in that area? I think so. The place is going up like gangbusters while the rest of the country goes into poverty and there is only one reason for this. BIG GOVERNMENT!!!!! The more people that work for the gov't, the more money can be found. We now have the biggest gov't that we have ever had by FAR. Now for the kicker. AVG INCOME or gov't worker is 6 figures! 105,000 per year! Just take a drive and see where the country keeps all of it's riches...

10:19 am September 20, 2013

Dr Zaius wrote:

Washington DC is a tumor on the body of the nation. I recommend intensive radiation treatment to kill the tumor to allow the body to survive--something on the order of a B61 at 5,000 AGL.

10:21 am September 20, 2013

jimd wrote:

Has there ever been a more corrupt gov't in the USA? Never. How long are we going to put up with these bass turds.

10:24 am September 20, 2013

A Metro Resident wrote:

Ladies and Gentlemen, please don't be so harsh about the contents of the article. The historical data encapsulated ends during a period of major change in our government and economy. Defense contracting companies and their suppliers have had to restructure their organizations to align with future business with the USG. We are seeing decreased business and more layoffs in some cases as more contracts are being bid and awarded as lowest cost, technically acceptable contracts. The author of this article should have prefaced the report with note of the aforementioned, but might want to revisit the data following the next Presidential Election.

10:26 am September 20, 2013

NatsFan wrote:

While many of the people in the DC area are raking it in as government employees, lobbyists, lawyers and politicians, please remember that there are many who are not...the bottom level employees who get cut so that their bosses can keep the big salaries. I love how lawyers support the Dems but treat their staffs like so much garbage, taking every opportunity to outsource, cut back and fire. There are lots of us low level techs working at GS-7 levels with no power and no perks and just getting by.

10:30 am September 20, 2013

Bead Stallcup wrote:

That's because 90% of the people working in "DC" work for the federal gov't and are being paid out of the tax plunder. You know, money squeezed out of people working in the PRIVATE SECTORS in other states and other parts of the country. How hard is that to understand?

10:35 am September 20, 2013

A. Levy wrote:

Ever wonder why all the professional liars enter politics? Now you know why.

10:47 am September 20, 2013

M Coughlin wrote:

Now you know why both sides can't be trusted...they all live off our "teat". Two sides of the same coin.

11:10 am September 20, 2013

Look Deeper wrote:

The author fails to explain WHY incomes soared. The inference is that the federal civilian workforce and federal contractors are raking in the dough. But if that were true, you would also see incomes in Maryland and Virginia "soar" because that is where the *majority* of the federal civilian and contractor workforce actually live. MD was up 1.7%, VA was down 1.7%. So that idea is bunk. The real reason incomes in DC "soared" is because of changing demographics in the city. Young professionals are increasingly choosing a walkable lifestyle and urban amenities over a house in the suburbs. For decades, DC was mostly a destitute ghetto riddled with crime and filth. Over the last decade, however, much of the urban blight has been overtaken with urban renewal and yuppies moving into the city are driving that transformation. So the city population is changing rapidly--from a low-income ghetto to a moderate/high income yuppie playground. But don't, for one minute, think that's because actual incomes have "soared." The only things that actually "soared" during this period are housing prices and cost of living--also due to the yuppie invasion. Yes, average income in DC is rising rapidly, but it is because of an influx of people to the city, not because federal workers are getting paid well.

11:44 am September 20, 2013

TRUTHER wrote:

Really look deeper? DC is primarily government civilians, and contractors paid by the government Many of whom are overpaid and underworked. Been there done that and got the overpriced t-shirt because the cost of living in DC is high.

11:54 am September 20, 2013

danny rose wrote:

D.C.?? Isn't that where our Government is? Don't they employ 3 of 5 workers. Weird, huh?

11:58 am September 20, 2013

Not buying it wrote:

Look Deeper wrote :
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The author fails to explain WHY incomes soared. The inference is that the federal civilian workforce and federal contractors are raking in the dough. But if that were true, you would also see incomes in Maryland and Virginia “soar” because that is where the *majority* of the federal civilian and contractor workforce actually live. MD was up 1.7%, VA was down 1.7%. So that idea is bunk. The real reason incomes in DC “soared” is because of changing demographics in the city. Young professionals are increasingly choosing a walkable lifestyle and urban amenities over a house in the suburbs. For decades, DC was mostly a destitute ghetto riddled with crime and filth. Over the last decade, however, much of the urban blight has been overtaken with urban renewal and yuppies moving into the city are driving that transformation. So the city population is changing rapidly–from a low-income ghetto to a moderate/high income yuppie playground. But don’t, for one minute, think that’s because actual incomes have “soared.” The only things that actually “soared” during this period are housing prices and cost of living–also due to the yuppie invasion. Yes, average income in DC is rising rapidly, but it is because of an influx of people to the city, not because federal workers are getting paid well.
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"The Washington, D.C. metro area — which includes the surrounding suburbs in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia — has it even better, with a median household income of $88,233 that ranks ^highest^ among the U.S.’s 25 most populous metro areas." It's hard to claim that it is "not because federal workers are getting paid well."

12:00 pm September 20, 2013

German immigrant wrote:

I agree with bead stallcup that it's theft from people who aren't a part of the depraved gang of professional thugs in some ways they are worse than the mafia for example Jack wheeler who was found dead in a dumpster, he was someone trying to take some of the heavy taxes off of the small businesses but who has more interest in small businesses failing? Certainly not the mob who is tied to all sorts of small restaurants.

12:06 pm September 20, 2013

Mauloa wrote:

With all of the recall petitions flying these days, and the possibilities already for two states partitioning in to four - why don't we start a petition for America ridding ourselves of Washington DC and creating two Countries - America and America Lost. I would go for that.

12:14 pm September 20, 2013

sui winn wrote:

New best location for extreme expensive auto's, wines, diamonds, etc. Your tax dollars working for elites to play and spend.

12:36 pm September 20, 2013

bill wrote:

You fools keep right on voting democrat.

12:57 pm September 20, 2013

Darin wrote:

Compare DC with Mississippi. One is the highest median income, the other the lowest. Yet they both have the same 10% deep poverty rate.

1:11 pm September 20, 2013

GenEarly wrote:

How much are you going to take? Time for a visible nationwide response, a Tea Party, for real!

Subject: Million Truck March on D.C. Oct 11-13- -get a 30 day supply stocked up
PLEASE for our country and our future...DO NOT SHOP< GET GASOLINE< BANK OR DO ANY COMMERCE THESE 3 DAYS...!!! WE MUST GET THEIR ATTENTION...STOCK UP ENOUGH SUPPLIES FOR 30 DAYS...truckers say after off the road for 3 days it will take 30 days to stock the stores...!! EVERYONE is welcome to join the truckers march...send this info out on the CB and HAM radios...get the info to as many truckers/patriots as possible. We've had ENOUGH TYRANNY.

1:22 pm September 20, 2013

jnsesq wrote:

Gee, imagine that...

They must think they're doin' a swell job.

1:46 pm September 20, 2013

Brandon wrote:

DC is the new Pyongyang ............................

1:55 pm September 20, 2013

Tina Rocha wrote:

Washington DC needs a thorough cleansing. The nozzle should begin in the House through and into the Senate, then the Whitehouse on into the Potomac. We then need to change our Capital’s geographic. Nothing is getting done in this town and hasn’t in a decade other than DC insiders getting wealthy. This little party that we the tax payer pays for needs to be broken up and demand that the parents come home. Not what was promised Mr. Obama but then again what promises of yours have materialized? Precisely……

1:58 pm September 20, 2013

Capt Renault wrote:

The same phenomenon is prevalent at the state and local level. Between salary and lifetime benefits, scoring a government job is like hitting the lottery.

2:00 pm September 20, 2013

Eramthgin wrote:

Of course the bottom feeding pond scum suckers think the ecomomy is doing great. All of the DC area is covered by a dome that prevents them from seeing what is happening to the country,

2:04 pm September 20, 2013

poppyw wrote:

Rampant criminality pays from the halls of congress down to the sinister streets of DC. Congress is the best congress the banking cartel could buy.

2:04 pm September 20, 2013

mytoocents wrote:

Brain-eating amoeba would starve to death in DC.

2:21 pm September 20, 2013

Jeremy wrote:

If I was a liberal in 2013, I'd be wiping my ass with the little people too.

2:51 pm September 20, 2013

Mike Lee wrote:

The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class disappears. Thank you Barack Obama.

3:26 pm September 20, 2013

The First Contender wrote:

That runs for president on the platform of laying off 25% of all DC federal employees on day one of their administration gets my vote.

3:39 pm September 20, 2013

Jonathan Callahan wrote:

This goes to prove how utterly immoral Obama and his minions really are . Lining their pockets and cutting a fat hog at the expense of everyone else . The congress and John Roberts( he who would be king of semantics ) are equally guilty . All of these people should be in jail for corruption .

3:40 pm September 20, 2013

Anonymous wrote:

Kill all politicians ASAP. They are the scum of the universe and the cause of almost all of humanity's ills. Greed and ambition are the true gods of these scoundrels.

3:43 pm September 20, 2013

daveca wrote:

Peasants rising up and torching DC in 5,4,3,2.....

Keep your ear to the ground, its coming. Itll happen the next second after the Gummit Welfare bennies run out!

3:45 pm September 20, 2013

torpeau wrote:

I wonder how many people get paid in cash, forget to report it all to the IRS, and get included in the poverty figures.

4:00 pm September 20, 2013

Mr. Bernard Wijeyasingha wrote:

It is this artificial growth in income in Washington D.C to all 50 capitals that has given a false impression that the US economy is recovering. It is not based on manufacturing, our industrial sector or service industry but on the rise of salaries. One issue missed in this article is that along with the rise of income is also the rise of the cost of living. Washington D.C. is one of the most expensive places to live in and if one factors that in it would give a realistic picture.

4:05 pm September 20, 2013

Bill wrote:

Everyone keeps telling me that if you're not making more money it's because you're lazy, so I guess we know which is the hardest working area of the country. Right? Has to be.. right?

4:35 pm September 20, 2013

cappyjoe08527 wrote:

Shut the Government DOWN and do it NOW!!!!!!

4:56 pm September 20, 2013

Capt Renault wrote:

Tax revolt
Tax revolt
Tax revolt

5:05 pm September 20, 2013

PacRim Jim wrote:

D.C. carouses as America burns.

5:10 pm September 20, 2013

valwayne wrote:

This is Obama and the Democrats folks. When you elect near socialists into power the Government, the unions, left wing special interests, and all the folks who hang onto Government and suck money from the taxpayers do fine. Who does poorly? Working people and business owners. Obama talks about the Middle Class and working Americans but who has benefied from 5 years of Obama? Lawyers, Lobbyists, Public Employee unions, Government Workers. Even the Poor in DC have gotten poorer under Obama while the Government class has gotten rich. We aren't paying taxes to help poor people folks, under Obama we are paying higher taxes to pay off all the Democrat special interests who are sucking us dry.

5:34 pm September 20, 2013

Mystick wrote:

That's what happens when your government is a predatory parasite.

5:50 pm September 20, 2013

Me wrote:

DC doesn't even produce anything to create wealth. At least the Dakotas actually produce oil and natural gas. The left wing wants to regulate certain industries it doesn't like out of business such as coal, timber, agriculture, fishing, etc. b/c they falsely claim those industries are destroying the planet or whatever BS excuse they can use.

6:18 pm September 20, 2013

Cogito wrote:

Interesting.....According to Medicaid Web Site 27.78% are on Medicaid.

6:27 pm September 20, 2013

Anonymous wrote:

Five of the wealthiest counties in the US surround D.C. Time to move our nation's capital to Omaha.

6:43 pm September 20, 2013

TG wrote:

This is a little misleading. They should do the same analysis for the DC metro area as a whole. I'm sure it is still much better than most of the country but these data are likely being exacerbated by the fact that over the past decade DC-proper has become a much safer, more family-friendly place to live so a lot of wealthy families that might once have lived in the suburbs are moving into the city. This migration raises the averages in the city even if it doesn't lift the overall metro area. Every other data point here is for a full state, not just an isolated urban area.

7:37 pm September 20, 2013

carl38 wrote:

Now if the same question were to asked. How many con men or women are in this area I think the numbers would be the same.

7:58 pm September 20, 2013

edwardo wrote:

LET them eat cake! where is Monsieur Guillotine when you need him?

7:58 pm September 20, 2013

edwardo wrote:

DC? parasites living off of the tax payer!

8:58 pm September 20, 2013

dan glreasaski wrote:

Living off the taxpayer? You mean directly stealing from the taxpayer. So they can bribe, lie, cheat, steal and anything else that if Americans ever saw the real money trail there would be wars in the streets

9:37 pm September 20, 2013

Thin The Herd wrote:

Ah, yes the poor civil servant.

Can someone please convince Iran and N Korea that it would hurt America to set off their nukes in DC?

Nah, they're not that dumb. They can keep their nukes and watch Washington destroy America, and laugh at the spectacle.

10:02 pm September 20, 2013

Podalirius wrote:

Everyone commenting seems to think that only government employees live in DC. The biggest population is the lobbyists. The lobbyists are so wealthy, they buy the government so that they can suck even more money out of the middle class. Those are the real demons to slay.

11:38 pm September 20, 2013

valleyforge wrote:

So DC is both the richest and the poorest city in the US. One could not think of a more appropriate result for a city that defines liberal policies and influence trading in both the local city government and the national government. This is what happens when political decision-making displaces individual decisions and free markets. The connected get rich and the poorest get poorer, and are used by the connected as a justification to line their pockets once again.

1:18 am September 21, 2013

Big Bear wrote:

Yeah, the rest of us don't have access to the Federal Reserve's funny money compooters, and have to live in reality.

Doesn't sound like unWashedington Diseased needs any more of our money. Cut them off. All they have to do is put the right substring in their bankster pimp's compooters and the 1000-year Reich continues...

1:24 am September 21, 2013

Foggy World wrote:

Well after reading over the list it becomes gimlet clear just how we can cut the budget and not disrupt he productive but neglected working people of America. Time to thin out the civil "servants" and their courtiers.

2:49 am September 21, 2013

Trayvon Shuckstain wrote:

DC is raping the rest of the country? Wow- what a shock.

3:23 am September 21, 2013

Brandon wrote:

Interesting that the the 4 states with positive numbers (ND, SD, WV and WY) are all strong Red States. I say strong because Romney won each by over 57% in 2012. Along those same lines, the wort performer being Michigan was a solidly Blue State.

11:09 am September 21, 2013

Cheers wrote:

Something seems off comparing DC (not a state) with Mississippi. One has Senators and a vote on government policies, the other does not...

1:05 pm September 21, 2013

Bjorn Talvi wrote:

Wow! Finally the mainstream media has caught up with the alternative media.

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Markus Christiansen wrote:

Thieving politicians enriching themselves and their friends, and why would they not there is no one stopping them. They helped the Wall Street crime syndicates loot the treasury and now they figure its their turn.

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